A 5-day Pre-Nursery lesson plan on farm animals, including pigs, chickens, and sheep. Features slanting lines, the colour orange, and making cracker pizzas.
What children learn
- Explain that farms grow food and raise animals that provide people with food products and labour.
- Identify common farm animals and describe their features, sounds, homes, young, and contributions.
- Recognise and form standing, sleeping, and right- and left-slanting lines as pre-writing strokes.
- Identify the colour orange in familiar objects and use it in art and sensory work.
Key activities
- Make standing farm-animal figures with coloured cut-outs and clothespin legs.
- Create a sensory muddy-pig picture and a Little Red Hen sensory bin.
- Decorate cow, goat, and sheep pictures with paper, wool, and cotton.
- Build and present an imaginative playdough farm with animal and tree figurines.
- Prepare cracker pizzas and make orange prints with cut oranges.
You’ll need
Farm-animal figures and cut-outs, crayons and clothespins, paint, oats, wheat and sensory bins, paper and natural fibres, pre-writing loose parts and trays, orange flashcards and art supplies, playdough and blocks, cracker-pizza ingredients.
Structure: 5 days; each day includes a Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, gross-motor development, cognition/literacy, literacy or fine-motor work, and numeracy.